Release
The first press of the album was issued on Porcupine Tree's own label, Transmission, and was limited to 5000 copies in a fold-out digipak. It was originally decided to sell 3000 copies through the band's online store and sell the remaining 2000 at shows on the forthcoming tour, but the initial run of pre-orders through the online store were sold out in a period of 24 hours so the band quickly put out more copies, whether for purchase or download in MP3/FLAC formats at a very cheap cost; the downloadable version includes exclusive printable artwork. A Japanese edition was released through WHD in late October 2007 and includes the radio edit of "Fear of a Blank Planet" as a bonus track. A second (unlimited) super jewel box (inside a cardboard slipcover) edition was released on 18 February 2008 on Peaceville Records.
The Dutch vinyl of Fear of a Blank Planet incorporates the Nil Recurring tracks into FoaBP.
Read more about this topic: Nil Recurring
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